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How to Reach Your Freelancing Goals in 2011: A 4-Step Plan of Action for Success
Productivity, Writing It’s that time of year where many are turning their attention to goals they want to accomplish next year. If you freelance, following is a concrete plan to ensure your success. Before I outline the specific steps, I want to get personal for a minute to illustrate how and why setting goals is so important to your success. How I Achieved the Goal of Transitioning from Writing for Clients to Writing for Myself About three years ago, I realized ...
Continue readingPublishing an Ebook on Amazon? Your Questions Answered.
Writing On December 7th, I crossed off a goal on my career list – to publish an ebook on Amazon. After I got through the instructions, it was pretty easy by the way. I can now upload one in as little as 15-30 minutes (quicker if it wasn’t for my Type A personality that forces me to try to get everything perfect). Anyway . . . After I got my ebook published on Amazon, there were a few things I wished I’d known that would have made the experience ...
Continue readingHow to Write an Ebook Fast (within 3 Days) – That Sells Fast (Get Sales within a Week)
Making Money, Writing Recently, InkwellEditorial.com hosted its first ebook writing and publishing tournament. I hosted this tournament because I’ve written almost 20 ebooks to date, and people were always asking me how I manage to publish so many. So, to prove how relatively easy it was to write an ebook fast, I thought, “Hmm, why not have a public forum where I show wanna-be ebook writers that it can be done.” Hence, the tournament was a challenge for ...
Continue readingBlog Marketing: What to Do After You Start Your Pay Per Click Campaign
Promote your blog In Monday’s post, we discussed what pay per click (PPC) is and the three most important elements that go into writing a PPC ad. In yesterday’s post, we talked about two things to consider that will help you decide if pay per click marketing is right for your blog. Today we’re going to discuss what you should do after you start your pay per click campaign. This is not a “set it and forget it” type of marketing – as many think. And ...
Continue readingBlog Marketing: Should You Use Pay-Per-Click to Promote Your Blog
Promote your blog In yesterday’s post, we talked about pay-per-click (PPC) marketing, ie, what it is and the three most important elements that go into making up a successful PPC ad. If you’re intrigued, you may be thinking, “Hmmm, this sounds good, I want to give it a try.” Hold your horses there fella. You can lose a lot of money quickly with pay-per-click marketing if you don’t know what you’re doing. So following are a couple of things to ...
Continue readingBlog Marketing: An Overview of Pay Per Click
Promote your blog Pay per click marketing can be very effective for getting the word out about your blog. This is especially true if you have affiliate programs you promote there. Many bloggers know what pay-per-click is, of course, but they don’t have a full understanding of the various elements of it. Following is a brief overview of pay-per-click, and three key factors that go into making up a successful pay-per-click ad. Definition of Pay Per Click Pay per ...
Continue reading2 High-Paying Online Writing Jobs
Writing I’m a big believer in what I call “nicheing it to success.” As in, pitching yourself to potential clients as an expert in one area. It’s been my experience that it’s easier for clients to hire you based on your expertise in one area. Once they get a feel for your writing talent, most will give you projects outside of your initially stated expertise. Once I started doing SEO writing (Fall 2007), I haven’t looked back. It’s 75-85% of ...
Continue readingDo’s and Don’ts of Cold Calling for Freelance Writers
Blogging In yesterday’s post, we went over a cold-calling script freelancers writers can use to drum up more freelance writing jobs. Today, as promised, I want to discuss some do’s and don’ts of cold calling. At the end, I’ll tell you a friendly group with which to start your cold calling campaign. I’ve been on both sides of the hiring desk, so what I’m about to relay is from my personal experience. Your preferences, experiences and way of ...
Continue readingFreelance Writer Cold Calling Script: How to Cold Call to Get Freelance Writing Jobs
Blogging In my last post here, we discussed if cold calling was a viable way to land freelance writing gigs. In my opinion, it definitely is. However, it scares the bejeezus out of most people. I devised a method that got me past the fear. While I never grew to enjoy cold calling when I used to do it, I did come to dread it less using the method below. Take the Fear Out of Cold Calling: The Email, Call, Email System The thing that makes cold calling so ...
Continue readingFinding Freelance Writing Jobs: Does Cold Calling Work?
Writing Yesterday, I talked to a fairly new freelance writer. She’d been freelancing for about a year-and-a half, I think she said. She cold called me – which rarely happens. I get tons of email from freelancers wanting to work with my firm; but I can count the number of times I’ve received cold calls on one hand. It practically never happens. So, Does It Work? Without a doubt. In my opinion, cold calling is one of the quickest and easiest ways to ...
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